Siple v. State

How courts have described this case

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• holding that deviation from sentencing guidelines provides no basis for appellate review of a sentence once it is established that the sentence is within statutory limits
• holding that Delaware’s sentencing guidelines are voluntary and non-binding, and therefore, there is no constitutional or statutory right in Delaware to appeal a criminal punishment on the sole basis that it deviates from the SENTAC sentencing guidelines
• noting that \[t]here must be some finality to cases.\
• “It is within the sentencing judge’s discretion whether to extend leniency or to withhold leniency from others who appear less deserving.”
• “Delaware has not provided for appellate review of a criminal sentence on the sole basis that it deviated from the sentencing guidelines.”
• “The sentencing judge properly concluded that, to constitute ‘repetitive criminal conduct,’ prior convictions only needed to precede [the defendant’s] sentencing.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).